Thousands of pages of legislation have been passed by Congress over the years in efforts to overhaul the government’s procurement system. So it might come as a surprise to policy makers that one of the most transformative forces in the federal market of late is not a piece of legislation but insurgent industry player Amazon Web Services.

SafeNet Assured Technologies, LLC, today announced that its Luna Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) for Government have received FIPS 140-2 validation from NIST. Luna HSMs for Government are manufactured, sold, and supported in the U.S. exclusively by SafeNet Assured Technologies.

Perimeter security isn’t sufficient for protecting your organization from breaches. For overall protection of sensitive data, you have to focus on safeguarding your data, not just your network. That means encryption.

Cybersecurity will underscore most of the federal government’s military and civilian initiatives in 2016. That’s understandable considering data breaches are rampant and the government maintains essentially the world’s largest collection of IT networks. There’s a real need to ensure data security in various applications, both within and across agencies.

This past summer’s hacking of secure personnel information at The Office of Personnel Management started me thinking about the 1994 movie Pulp Fiction. We all need to take a hard lesson from that film, in terms of how we protect what’s important to us.

SafeNet Assured Technologies, LLC, a U.S. based provider of government high assurance data security solutions, today announced that four of Gemalto’s SafeNet High Speed Encryptors have received the United States Department of Defense Unified Capabilities Approved Products List (UC APL) approval.